DC Developments: December 27, 2023

Lineage Logistics

Lineage has opened a new facility in Houston, Texas. Houston ColdPort is located near the Jacintoport Terminal at Port Houston. Spanning approximately  315,000 square feet, the new facility marks the sixth location in Lineage’s Greater Houston network. Houston ColdPort offers transportation and drayage operations within the market to support import, export and domestic demand.

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution has signed an agreement to lease an entire 388,000 square foot warehouse building from Heller Industrial Parks. The brand-new building, located just south of the Port of New York/New Jersey in Dayton, NJ, is the latest step in the company’s expansion efforts and offers an “off-port” solution in Central New Jersey. The facility will offer temperature-controlled warehousing, container drayage, local and regional trucking services, and national freight brokerage services. The company expects to hire 75 people within its first year of operation.

AIPUT

AIPUT (Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust) has today announced that it has leased the newly completed ‘Black Arrow’ warehouse at its Blackthorne Point logistics campus, part of the Poyle Trading Estate to the west of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 (T5).  The site is the first UK logistics base for international freight forwarder, EFL Global. The new warehouse building will be operationally net zero and incorporates a range of environmental initiatives including roof-mounted photovoltaic panels and other low and zero carbon technologies, which together will deliver a 30 prcent reduction in CO₂ emissions over building regulation requirements. The new high-specification, 27,760 sq ft industrial warehouse occupies a 1.2 acre site.  Once fully operational, up to 35 new jobs are expected to be created at the site, which will primarily handle stock imports for major high street clothing retailers. AIPUT’s existing customers at Blackthorne Point include UPS Supply Chain, Scan Global Logistics, Flostream and CH Robinson.